NASCAR WCUP: Winston No Bull 5 Fact Sheet
24 May 2000
Posted By Terry CallahanMotorsports Editor, The Auto Channel
WINSTON NO BULL 5 FACT SHEET Coca-Cola 600
Location: Lowe's Motor Speedway
Date: Sunday, May 28, 2000
Start time: 6:15 p.m. eastern time
2000 Winston No Bull 5 -- Event No. 3 of 5
Qualified drivers:
? Jeff Burton (No. 99 Exide Batteries Ford Taurus)
? Tony Stewart (No. 20 Home Depot Pontiac Grand Prix)
? Mark Martin (No. 6 Valvoline Ford Taurus)
? Bill Elliott (No. 94 McDonald's Ford Taurus)
? Bobby Labonte (No.18 Interstate Batteries Pontiac Grand Prix)
Winston No Bull 5 Notes
* There have been 12 Winston No Bull 5 events, and in that time, there have been eight winners. Burton and Jeff Gordon have each won the million-dollar bonus three times. Dale Jarrett has won the million twice. The eight winners have come in the last 10 Winston No Bull 5 events, including the last two.
* The group of eligible fans for the Coca-Cola 600 is the first all-male group. It is also among the youngest groups of fans with an average age of 38.8-years-old.
* The Winston No Bull 5 was created in 1998 as a tribute to NASCAR's 50th anniversary season. The Winston No Bull 5 replaced the Winston Million, which had been in existence since 1985. Bill Elliott in 1985 and Jeff Gordon in 1997 were the only winners of the Winston Million in its 13-season run.
* The original Winston No Bull 5 schedule (1998) featured the Daytona 500, Coca-Cola 600, Brickyard 400, Pepsi Southern 500 and the Winston 500.
* In October of 1998, the Carsdirect.com 400 at Las Vegas was added to the 1999 Winston No Bull 5 lineup, replacing the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis. In November of 1999, the Chevrolet Monte Carlo 400 at Richmond, Va. joined the fray replacing the Pepsi Southern 500 at Darlington, S.C.
* The six of the eight Winston No Bull 5 winners won from a starting position of fifth or better. When he won the 1999 Pepsi Southern 500 at Darlington, Burton set a new standard starting 15th. He won this year's CarsDirect.com after starting 11th.
* The Winston No Bull 5 million-dollar bonus has already been collected twice this season. 1999 NASCAR Winston Cup champion Dale Jarrett won the Daytona 500 and collected his second Winston No Bull 5 million-dollar bonus. When Jarrett took the checkered flag at Daytona, Winston No Bull 5 fan Melissa Brown of Pittsburgh became a millionaire. Then in March, Burton won the rain-shortened CarsDirect.com 400 at Las Vegas to win his third Winston No Bull 5 event. Burton's victory made Joyce Williams from Port Isabel, Texas a millionaire.
* Burton won the Winston No Bull 5 million-dollar bonus twice in 1999 taking the checkered flag at the Coca-Cola 600 May 30 at Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C. and the Pepsi Southern 500 at Darlington, S.C. When Burton won, NASCAR Winston Cup fans Wade Smith of Metropolis, Ill. and Phyllis Farmer of Hillsboro, Mo. each took home $1 million. Jeff Gordon captured the Winston No Bull 5 million-dollar bonus Feb. 14 at the 1999 Daytona 500. With Gordon's win, NASCAR Winston Cup fan Ray Grimm of Hagerstown, Md. also won $1 million.
* Jeff Burton won three of the five Winston No Bull 5 events in 1999, but he only collected the million-dollar bonus twice. When he won the Las Vegas 400 on March 7, he was not among the eligible drivers.
* The 1999 Winston 500 marked the only time three cars from the same team competed for the million-dollar bonus. Mark Martin, Kevin Lepage and Jeff Burton all compete out of the Roush Racing stable.
* When he was eligible at Las Vegas, Elliott became the 22nd NASCAR Winston Cup driver to qualify for a Winston No Bull 5 event.
* In the 12 previous Winston No Bull 5 events, there have been five eligible fans from the state of Texas. Joyce Williams from Port Isabel is eligible for the carsdirect.com 400 at Las Vegas. Bryon Pratt from Houston was eligible for the 1999 Winston 500 at Talladega, Jennifer McCann from Grand Prairie and Ritchie Gregory from Dallas were eligible for the 1999 Daytona 500. Rhonda Traylor from Highlands was eligible for the 1999 Coca-Cola 600. Joyce Williams is the only Texas winner.
* The $1 million Winston No Bull 5 bonus was captured three times in each of its first two seasons. In 1998, Jeff Gordon won the bonus at the Brickyard 400 and the Pepsi Southern 500 at Darlington, S.C. Dale Jarrett won the Winston No Bull 5 at the Winston 500 at Talladega, Ala. In 1999, Jeff Gordon won the Daytona 500 and the Winston No Bull 5. Jeff Burton collected the when he won the Coca- Cola 600 and the Pepsi Southern 500 at Darlington, S.C.
* The eligible drivers for this year's Coca-Cola 600 all had excellent finishes in last year's 600-mile marathon. Burton took the checkered flag and the million, but the next three finishers in that race are eligible for the Winston No Bull 5 million this Memorial Day Weekend. Labonte finished second, Martin third while Stewart rounded out the top four. Elliott came home in 14th place.
* In the 2000 Daytona 500, Kenny Wallace completed the third set of Winston No Bull 5 brothers joining Rusty as eligible drivers. Both Ward and Jeff Burton have been eligible, as well as Terry and Bobby Labonte.
Winston No Bull 5 Format
1. Drivers become eligible to win the $1 million Winston No Bull 5 bonus by finishing in the top five at the previous Winston No Bull 5 event. The five races comprising the Winston No Bull 5 in 2000 are, in chronological order: the Daytona 500; the Carsdirect.com 400 (March 5); the Coca-Cola 600 (May 28) at Charlotte; the Chevrolet Monte Carlo 400 (Sept. 9) at Richmond, Va.; and the Winston 500 (Oct. 15) at Talladega, Ala. NOTE: Eligible drivers at the 2000 Daytona 500 are determined by the top-five finishers at the final Winston No Bull 5 event of 1999, the Winston 500 at Talladega Superspeedway.
2. Eligible drivers at a particular Winston No Bull 5 event can win the Winston No Bull 5 million-dollar bonus by finishing first in said event.
3. If all five qualified drivers fail to capture the $1 million Winston No Bull 5 bonus at a particular Winston No Bull 5 event, the bonus will not roll over to the next event. Each Winston No Bull 5 event is worth $1 million to the qualified drivers.
4. If a qualified driver wins a Winston No Bull 5 event, one fan will also win a $1 million bonus check as part of Winston's "They Win, You Win" sweepstakes. Five fans will be eligible at each Winston No Bull 5 event. They will be selected at random through a nationwide sweepstakes program, and then each will be paired, at random, with one of the eligible Winston No Bull 5 drivers. If an eligible driver wins the Winston No Bull 5 bonus, then the fan paired with that driver will also win a $1 million check from Winston.
The following fans are qualified for the Winston No Bull 5 "They Win, You Win" fan sweepstakes at Charlotte. The fans and drivers will be paired when the drivers compete in a Daytona USA video race on Saturday, May 20, 2000 at Lowe's Motor Speedway. The finishing order will determine the pairing.
* John Warner, 33, Milwaukee, Wisc.
* Edward Rzonca, 57, Bellmore, N.Y.
* James Tolan, 34, Lake Ariel, Pa.
* Doug Robinson, 33, Hattiesburg, Miss.
* Joseph Culver, 37, New Haven, Ky.
WINSTON NO BULL 5 HISTORY Including the Coca-Cola 600
Previous winners: Jeff Burton, 2000 CarsDirect.com 400
Dale Jarrett, 2000 Daytona 500
Jeff Burton, 1999 Pepsi Southern 500
Jeff Burton, 1999 Coca-Cola 600
Jeff Gordon, 1999 Daytona 500
Jeff Gordon, 1998 Brickyard 400
Jeff Gordon, 1998 Pepsi Southern 500
Dale Jarrett, 1998 Winston 500
Qualified drivers(Number of times):
Bobby Labonte (7) Jeff Gordon (6)
Dale Jarrett (6) Mark Martin (6)
Jeff Burton (6) Dale Earnhardt
(5)
Jeremy Mayfield (4) Mike Skinner
(3)
Rusty Wallace (3) Ken Schrader
(2)
Ward Burton (3) Terry Labonte (2)
Tony Stewart (2) Bill Elliott
(2)
Ernie Irvan (1) Jimmy Spencer
(1)
Michael Waltrip (1) Kenny Irwin
(1)
John Andretti (1) Ricky Rudd (1)
Kevin Lepage (1) Kenny Wallace
(1)
Drivers qualified: 22
Most consecutive events qualified - 6: Jeff Gordon (1998 - Brickyard 400, Pepsi Southern 500, Winston 500, 1999 - Daytona 500, Las Vegas 400 and Coca-Cola 600)
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